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Summary: A portrait of explorer, soldier, and hunter Denys Finch Hatton documents the life of the aristocrat known for his love affairs with aviatrix Beryl Markham and author Isak Dinesen, in a biography set against the backdrop of colonial British East Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY WheelerWheeler, Sara.
Summary: Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird ,and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 WHEWheeler, Sara.
Summary: Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the "Writer in Residence at the U.S. South Pole Station." She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 WHEWheeler, Sara
Summary: A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019